Verboticisms

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: af front per son

Sentence: Venoma had found the perfect job. She worked as an affrontperson for the telephone company at their fancy head office. It was jokingly called the Customer Service Dept; but employees there were encouraged to trade insults with patrons, both in person and over the phone. She worked with 2 others, Rudy & Curt and she always won the insult competitions the department had each week. Her family motto was, "The best defence is a good offense" and she strived to live up to that motto. Imagine her surprise when they were all told that the company was closing shop locally and farming it's business overseas...globalization it was called. But Venoma landed on her feet by being sent overseas to train the new employees on how to insult the customers, even with a strong foreign accent.

Etymology: Afront (a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of an affront;treat, mention, or speak to rudely) & Person (a human being)

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COMMENTS:

Hilarious and so true! Love the names Venoma, Rudy and Curt, too! - splendiction, 2009-11-09: 20:22:00

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: JOB-lo-queest

Sentence: Roxie's success as a jobloquist was just the beginnning of her plans for a worldwide franchise of Insultoriums. "Just imagine" she said to Bob. "We could train Crapenters to care for Building Industry workers, especially plumbers; Jivesqwawkers for musicians and entertainers and Fleermongers for doomsday prophets." Bob loved the idea of making squillions, but was concerned at a growing trend in Roxie's behaviour of "bringing her work home."

Etymology: JOB: Employment & OBLOQUY: reproach, vile, evil speaking, revilement& IST:practisers. COGNATES:JOBLOQUY, JOBLOQUISTER

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COMMENTS:

The possibilities are endless.....slurfing the net? - Mustang, 2008-06-30: 23:07:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: deh mee na jur

Sentence: The demeanager headed up the inhuman resources department.

Etymology: manager demean

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COMMENTS:

good one - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-01: 09:14:00

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Created by: Ellemorpheus

Pronunciation: Mal-I-nuh-tor

Sentence: Foul names cascaded from the malignator's lips as she addressed her audience.

Etymology: From Malign- to speak about somebody in a spitefully critical manner.

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: in-dig-nuh-tair-ee

Sentence: Sue is a professional indignatary, seizing every opportunity to publically insult people.

Etymology: indignant, dignitary

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COMMENTS:

Nice. Politely insulting. - wordmeister, 2007-04-23: 09:55:00

playful - emmyb2, 2007-04-23: 14:18:00

Excellent as usual. - ErWenn, 2007-04-24: 00:13:00

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Created by: Banky

Pronunciation: in-sull-tant

Sentence: Daniel had a difficult time explaining his job as an insultant to the throngs of douchebags who would ask him about it daily.

Etymology: Insult + consultant

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COMMENTS:

Damn that was a good one! - lumina, 2008-06-30: 19:10:00

Simple, yet effective. Good word. - Tigger, 2008-06-30: 21:49:00

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Created by: multitasker

Pronunciation: in sult er a tor

Sentence: I used to enjoy bondage but now I prefer to use an insulterator

Etymology: Insult (to abuse verbally) + era (taking time) tor (to take part in the act of)

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Created by: emmyb2

Pronunciation: deh-fah-mission

Sentence: The defamician worked hard to ruin everyone's egos.

Etymology: defame + ician (one who does)

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Created by: karenanne

Pronunciation: MOCK smith

Sentence: Kelly was a mocksmith by trade but sometimes worked odd jobs for extra money. She applied to the contempt agency and found that there were a lot more jab descriptions listed than she would have thought. They even had positions for bioenginesneers and diss-trict managers.

Etymology: mock + smith (n., one who makes or works with something); a play on the word locksmith

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COMMENTS:

Clever... - mweinmann, 2009-11-11: 11:12:00

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Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: hate rah deee

Sentence: I went to an upscale mall to buy a desk and chair from Pottery Barn. So I went up to a guy standing at a counter right below the chair I wanted and asked him if he could help me. He looked up over the magazine he was reading and in a snotty tone told me I could place a special order at any register. He was such a hatere'd and so surly from me asking him for help. I looked back at him a bit aghast and said "Ewww. You are in your forties and work in the mall. Don't care that it's Short Hills Mall, you still work in the mall." He was the perfect example of a hatere'd.

Etymology: maitre'd + hate. Actual spelling should be hatere'd - but rules of game wouldn't allow it - so i changed it a bit for the header.

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